| M 1/12 |
Introduction: Entering the Roman World
- Study resources: guides to reading productively for historical study
- SQ3R for Primary-Source
Coursework (Jacqueline Long, Loyola University Chicago)
- Patrick Rael, Reading,
Writing, and Researching for History: a Guide for College Students (Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College 2004),
- "How to Read a Primary Source" (2.b in the menu on the left under "Reading")
- "How to Read a Secondary Source" (2.a in the menu on the left under "Reading")
- (alternatively, David W. Koeller, Using Historical
Sources, History Department, North Park University, Chicago, copyright 2005)
- Study questions
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| W 1/14 |
Empire and Change in the Third Century
- Cameron, Ch. I "Introduction"
- Study questions
- Accountability groups (1 grid per group, sign with all contributing members' names), prepare SQ3R Grid for documents in reading assignment for Friday 1/16, to submit by start of class meeting-time Friday 1/16; cf. SQ3R for Primary-Source Coursework for fuller explanation of the method; bonus, on the same document, please also select your group's legionary animal
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| F 1/16 |
Old-Time Religions
- Lee, items # 1.1-14, 8.1 (the first and the second editions give the same
documents at the same numbers)
- Accountability groups: SQ3R Grid of today's reading assignment due today! (done thoughtfully and written notes kept in good order, this method of reading-preparation can promote learning, reduce stress, and support successful displays of learning such as on exams; it is always recommended, whether or not it is assigned for specific credit)
- Study questions
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| M 1/19 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: no classes
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| W 1/21 |
Christian Conversion in Roman Society
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| F 1/23 |
Religious Enforcement by Decius
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| M 1/26 |
The Formation of the Tetrarchy
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| W 1/28 |
Imperial Care for the Economy
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| F 1/30 |
The Great Persecution
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| M 2/2 |
Christian Polemical History: Persecuting Emperors
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| W 2/4 |
Christian Polemical History: Evidence and Spin
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| F 2/6 |
Christian Polemical History: Assessing Evidence
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| M 2/9 |
Constantine: Documentary Snapshots
- Lee, items # 4.1-10 (includes partial review of Lactantius), 12.5 (first
edition) = # 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.7, 4.8, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 12.5 (second
edition)
- Think seriously about your proposals for the
collaborative research project
- Study questions
- Looking ahead: Study Guide for Exam 1
- Looking ahead: Research-exercise in Imperial Public Building due Monday 2/16
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| W 2/11 |
Constantine in Context?
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| F 2/13 |
Exam I
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| M 2/16 |
The "Rhetoric" of Imperial Capitals
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| W 2/18 |
Imperial Power and Roman Religion, after Constantine
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| F 2/20 |
Junior Emperor
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| M 2/23 |
It was a Dark and Stormy Empire: Contemporary Narrative History
- Ammianus Marcellinus, Books 14.1-15.6 (part review)
- Accountability groups:SQ3R Grid of today's reading assignment due today!
- Study questions
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| W 2/25 |
The Subject in Roman History
- Ammianus Marcellinus, Books 15.5 (review); 18.4-19.9; the very last paragraph of 31.16
- Study questions
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| F 2/27 |
Roman Society and Its Discontents
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| M 3/2 - Sa 3/7 |
Spring Break: no classes
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| M 3/9 |
Catch a Rising Star
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| W 3/11 |
Julian the Retrograde
- Cameron, Ch. VI "The Reign of Julian"
- Lee, items # 5.3-7 (first edition) = Lee # 5.5-9 (second edition)
- Study questions
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| F 3/13 |
A Boy's Life in Roman North Africa
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| M 3/16 |
Monnica and Women's Christianity
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| W 3/18 |
Late Antique Aesthetics and Culture
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| F 3/20 |
Swimming with Manichees
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| M 3/23 |
Exam II
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| W 3/25 |
Imperial Transitions
- Cameron, Ch. VII "The Late Roman State"
- Lee, items # 5.9, 5.10, 6.1 (first edition) = Lee # 5.11, 5.12, 6.1 (second
edition)
- Study questions
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| F 3/27 |
Rome's Army
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| M 3/30 |
Bad Neighbors: Violence and Corruption in International Relations
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| W 4/1 |
The Controversial Altar of Victory
- Symmachus, Referral
3 ("Memorial," as the Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers call it, means to mean something closer to "Memorandum," but the actual Latin relatio was the technical term for a magistrate's letter referring some matter to the emperor's central administration for official
advice)
- Ambrose, Letter 17 and Letter 18
- Study resources - visualization:
- Victory, marble, between 240-190 BC, from Samothrace, now in the Louvre: in modern times
the most famous image of Victory from the ancient Greek or Roman world (Wikimedia Commons, posted by Marie-Lan Nguyen)
- pagan worship, ivory diptych of the Nicomachi and Symmachi (WikiMedia Commons, posted by user "Marsyas")
- Study questions
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| Th 4/2, 4:15pm - M 4/6, 4:00pm |
Easter Holiday: no classes
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| W 4/8 |
Ambrose the Bishop
- Lee, items # 12.1, 12.2, 14.6, 14.10 (the first and the second editions give the same
documents at the same numbers)
- Ambrose, Letter 20
- Featured event! Group Constantine will give their collaborative
presentation, a 17-20 minutes' overview of their work in the Collaborative Research Project (group
members individually submit reports of their
individual work through the Assignment function in Sakai,
no later than the start of next class-meeting period).
- Study questions
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| F 4/10 |
Augustine in Milan
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| M 4/13 |
Giving it up for God
- Lee, items # 11.1-5, 11.7, 11.8, 15.7-9 (the first and the second editions give the same
documents at the same numbers)
- Featured event! Group Women will give their collaborative
presentation, a 17-20 minutes' overview of their work in the Collaborative Research Project (group
members individually submit reports of their
individual work through the Assignment function in Sakai,
no later than the start of next class-meeting period).
- Study questions
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| W 4/15 |
Platonic and Desiring Christianity
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| F 4/17 |
Christians and Jews
- Lee, items # 8.6-12 (the first and the second editions give the same
documents at the same numbers)
- Featured event! Group Crossing Difference will give their collaborative
presentation, a 17-20 minutes' overview of their work in the Collaborative Research Project (group
members individually submit reports of their
individual work through the Assignment function in Sakai,
no later than the start of next class-meeting period).
- Study questions
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| M 4/20 |
Holy Places: Contact and Transcendence
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| W 4/22 |
Ambrose and Theodosius: Articulating the Powers of Church and State
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| F 4/24 |
Legacy of the Later Roman Empire
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W 4/29
9:00am - 4:15pm |
Study Day.
See Loyola's Final Exam Schedule.
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Sa 5/2
1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Final examination.
See Loyola's Final Exam Schedule.
Loyola University's
Undergraduate
Studies Catalog provides that instructors do not have authority to re-schedule final
examinations under any circumstances; if your course-schedule results in your facing four (4)
final exams on a single day, you may petition Assistant Dean Patricoski to have one (1) of the four re-scheduled on the authority of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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